Trump teases Dems: ‘Bring in Mini Mike Bloomberg ASAP.’ Should they take his advice? by AndrewRomano
In the wake of the Democratic Party’s Iowa caucus debacle, President Trump took to Twitter Wednesday morning to offer his opponents some sarcastic advice.
Bloomberg’s viability is certainly something that people — or at least pundits — have been pondering in recent days. As the Iowa fiasco unfolded Monday night, and as the talking heads struggled to fill hours of cable news airtime set aside for caucus results that ultimately never came, many started to speculate about how the muddled outcome could boost Bloomberg’s candidacy. Hot takes about Bloomberg as the “real winner” of the Iowa caucuses followed the next day.
Iowa’s chaotic, divided results may have helped Bloomberg’s cause. “This all seems like a much more possible outcome than I thought was remotely conceivable even a week or so ago,” progressive journalist Josh Marshall wrote Wednesday. Bloomberg’s position has improved since he entered the race last November. At the time, he was polling at four percent nationally, according to Morning Consult; earlier this month, the same pollster found him at 14 percent — far ahead of Buttigieg and tied with Elizabeth Warren for third. Meanwhile, Bloomberg’s net favorability rating among Democratic primary voters has skyrocketed from a meager +5 percent in November to a robust +33 percent today.
This approach has its perks: Bloomberg polls as well as Biden in head-to-head matchups with Trump, and better than any other Democrat. But to win the Democratic nomination you don’t have to beat Trump; you have to beat the other Democrats. And there may be no mathematically plausible way for Bloomberg to win without tearing the Democratic Party in two — and perhaps fatally damaging its prospects in November.
For a sense of what might happen if these superdelegates select the billionaire Bloomberg over the populist Sanders — particularly if Sanders arrives at the convention ahead in the delegate count — just look at how Bernieworld is reacting to a recent Democratic National Committee rules change that will likely help Bloomberg qualify for the Nevada debate later this month.
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